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Contrasting collar shirts - yes or no?

Lucky Strike

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My only one, out of around forty dress shirts:
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It's rarely worn, but I tried it yesterday, and rather liked it. I'll have to look into this.
 

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I have two, but I think I will get another one soon. I have come to prefer the contrast collar, but self cuffs. I want a faint blue pencil stripe (white ground) with a white collar and self cuffs, to wear as a formal day shirt in lieu of plain white.
 

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Here is my RLPL Keaton. I haven't found an occasion to wear it yet
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but I like it and think it works under the right circumstances.

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Originally Posted by Manton
I have two, but I think I will get another one soon. I have come to prefer the contrast collar, but self cuffs. I want a faint blue pencil stripe (white ground) with a white collar and self cuffs, to wear as a formal day shirt in lieu of plain white.
I actually have a strong preference for contrast cuffs - just seems like it completes the look.

In any event, sounds like a great shirt. Will you go with a cutaway collar on that one?
 

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Originally Posted by Cantabrigian
I actually have a strong preference for contrast cuffs - just seems like it completes the look.
It's more "canonical" (or whatever) to get self cuffs. If weren't so lazy, I would get a true detachable collar formal day shirt. Those had self cuffs. But that's a pain **********, so I am going to get an attached collar. I don't mind the contrast cuffs altogether, but not for a formal day shirt.

Will you go with a cutaway collar on that one?
I think so. Geneva has not yet made me one, so this would be a good place to start.
 

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Originally Posted by Manton
It's more "canonical" (or whatever) to get self cuffs.

That's surprising. I would have thought that detachable cuffs would have come with detachable collars and that those cuffs would also have been white.
 

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Originally Posted by Cantabrigian
That's surprising. I would have thought that detachable cuffs would have come with detachable collars and that those cuffs would also have been white.

I think that is true a long time ago (19th century) but by the '30s, definitely not.
 

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I like them, but don't have many. The ones I wear are pinned club collars.
 

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Contrast collars rock, though I only happen to have one or two at the moment (must get more!).

Like cantab. I prefer them with contrast cuffs to complete the "flash git" look.
 

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Originally Posted by Manton
It's more "canonical" (or whatever) to get self cuffs. If weren't so lazy, I would get a true detachable collar formal day shirt. Those had self cuffs. But that's a pain **********, so I am going to get an attached collar. I don't mind the contrast cuffs altogether, but not for a formal day shirt.


I think so. Geneva has not yet made me one, so this would be a good place to start.


Who makes a proper OTR "cut away" like the one you posted a while ago?
 

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Probably should be retired to the 1980s, egomaniacs and Ralph Lauren theatric fans. Looks best with a Navy, DB suit and high formality. On casual it makes you seem as if an actor in a period piece, not contemporary. .
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However, LS seems to pull it off yet still seem 2007.
 

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Originally Posted by jml90
Who makes a proper OTR "cut away" like the one you posted a while ago?

The one I posted? I don't recall posting a cutaway. Anyway, I don't know who makes them, apart from RLPL, depicted above.
 

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Originally Posted by Manton
The one I posted? I don't recall posting a cutaway. Anyway, I don't know who makes them, apart from RLPL, depicted above.

I stand corrected in the shirt Appreciation thread it appeared like a cutaway when folded, but was actually a med spread.
 

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